As Twitchy has been reporting ever since the assassination of Charlie Kirk yesterday afternoon, the American media has been digging deeper holes of shame than ever before. And that's saying something.
The most egregious culprit, as usual, was MSNBC, with Katie Tur and Matthew Dowd blaming Kirk for someone shooting and killing him. Dowd lost his job for that, but Tur hasn't. Nor has Jen Psaki, Ezra Klein, anyone at TMZ or The New Republic, or countless other 'journalists' at legacy media outlets, whose coverage has been horrific.
Over at ABC News, maybe because they are still smarting from having to pay Donald Trump $15 million for lying about him, they went with a different tactic: Just try to hide what actually happened.
Here is how ABC framed Kirk's killing:
Charlie Kirk was a husband and the father of two young kids at the time of his death Wednesday at a campus university event in Utah. Here's what to know about his family. https://t.co/VrRkNrGKTo
— ABC News (@ABC) September 11, 2025
'At the time of his death at a campus event'?
Really?
How did he die, ABC? Did he have a heart attack?
"At the time of his death?" You mean when he was murdered in cold blood?
— northhunter job Title Husband,Father, Grandfather. (@northofmackinac) September 11, 2025
The body of the article isn't much better, though it does at least acknowledge that Kirk was shot.
Charlie Kirk was a husband and the father of two young kids at the time of his death Wednesday at a campus university event in Utah.
Kirk, the founder of the conservative youth activist organization Turning Point USA, was shot while speaking at Utah Valley University, the first stop this fall for his organization's 'The American Comeback Tour,' which was traveling to multiple college campuses across the country.
President Donald Trump announced Kirk's death on social media, writing, 'The Great, and even Legendary, Charlie Kirk, is dead.'
The obfuscation and use of the passive voice here is absolutely deliberate. It is not an accident.
We're just wondering exactly whom ABC News thought they were fooling. Other than themselves.
You used a lot of words to say “assassination”. https://t.co/wdTEcEbv9U
— Stacey (@ScotsFyre) September 11, 2025
They, in fact, twisted the English language into a pretzel trying to avoid the words 'murder' and 'assassination.'
Charlie Kirk was a husband and the father of two children when he was assassinated for disagreeing with the Left.
— The🐰FOO (@PolitiBunny) September 11, 2025
Fixed it for you. https://t.co/gPFQslAoKg
See how much easier that is? Not to mention clearer and more factual.
What kind of death ABC? https://t.co/xj9cWdl4J0
— Baked Turbo Flash (@BakedTurboFlash) September 11, 2025
Hey, don't ask them. They're just journalists. They can't possibly comment on such a complicated, complex question.
He was assassinated for creating a civil dialogue between people who disagreed.
— ScyfyLala (@SciFiMom13) September 11, 2025
The legacy media doesn't want dialogue. They want to tell everyone what to think and believe.
They murdered a devoted Father and Husband. And for what? Because they didn’t like his politics. pic.twitter.com/Ay4ZQ7KelL
— NevadanforLife (@nevadanfor) September 11, 2025
A beautiful family, torn apart forever.
And it is directly because of the violence against conservatives that the media encourages. That includes ABC News.
You spelled "murdered" wrong.
— Sasquatch of the D&S show (@Dentonandsas) September 11, 2025
Assassination is missing
— (((Civil_DiscourseNY)))🇺🇸🇮🇱🇺🇸 (@Next_andReady) September 11, 2025
He was murdered. You seem to have buried the lede. Any reason for that?
— Boy Howdy (@GrnWatchdog) September 11, 2025
It's a mystery.
Or, you know, not a mystery at all.
At the time he was ASSASINATED you stupid mockery of a news organization.
— Loren Karkip (@LKarkip) September 11, 2025
They will never change. And we will never hate them enough.
Most of the article was dedicated to talking about Kirk's wife, Erika, and we have many questions about that as well. We want to give them the benefit of the doubt here, but they don't deserve it.
It strikes us as very suspicious that they highlighted her and made sure to note that she is also a Christian conservative who often attended events with her husband and children.
Is ABC News painting a target on Charlie Kirk's family?
Sadly, we wouldn't put it past them.
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